You hate to bag on someone as adorable as Natalie, but she sadly doesn’t have an original musical bone in her body. The only thing they didn’t do in tribute to Lennon was create original and interesting songs. Deadman” was supposedly a saying that was revealed by playing the Beatles song Revolution 9 backwards, and another song of theirs, Revolution Man, was about Lennon himself. In addition, they loved The Beatles and wanted to let you know it. Coincidentally, it couldn’t have been more Alice In Chains if Layne Staley himself had written the damn thing. Their next single, Killing The Fly, slowed things down and added oddly-familiar harmonic vocals. Deadman, was little more than a Powerman 5000 outtake, right down to the creepy spoken-word verses and screaming choruses. This early 2000’s metal band had a couple radio singles get frequent play, though you’d swear it was two other, better, bands if you didn’t catch the DJ beforehand. Pretty sure shamelessly aping several bands in one shot falls under the “thou shalt not covet” thing that God was so against. We were shocked however, to find out they are a Christian band. And yet we were supposed to be shocked when we found out it wasn’t Evanescence.
Things got even more confusing when they released their next single, Awake And Alive, featuring synths, violins, and pretty female vocals designed to make us forget about the ugly male vocals immediately preceding them. But since they’re almost exactly the same song, from the beat to the heavy sound to the theme to the way the guy sings, then the listener can be forgiven. It probably took the average radio fan several listens before realizing Monster wasn’t just Three Days Grace writing a sequel to Animal I Have Become. A fairly new band to the mainstream crowd, these guys come roaring out of the gate quickly with two singles that are basically somebody else’s.
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